tabes
Example Sentences
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There is no doubt, for instance, that certain cases of intractable dyspepsia are associated with tabes and that in nearly the same way obstinate constipation frequently develops.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The wounds heal well, but the victims of tabes are unfavourable subjects for operative interference, on account of their liability to intercurrent complications.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
It is called, in the language of physicians, tabes dorsalis, or dorsal consumption; because it is supposed to arise from the dorsal portion of the spinal marrow.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Certainly locomotor ataxic patients would seem the least likely to be benefited by training in movement and yet this movement therapy for tabes has had some wonderful results.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
It must be used with great care not to exhaust the patient, but this is true also in tabes.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
